Verdant Cladding

Using plants as cladding on buildings to improve insulation, filter pollution, provide a habitat for wildlife, and ameliorate the visual environment.

Verdant cladding (or green walls) refers to the hanging or trellising of (usually external) walls with plants – as at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, or the Huntsville, Alabama, branch of the clothing store Anthropologie.

The Guardian noted, “Once, all we had was ivy to climb up the walls, ruin the brickwork, bring down the guttering and, with it, relations with the neighbours. Now the buzz word is verdant cladding.”